Talk:D'arcy Wretzky

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"She could have faced a felony charge, but was not formally charged with a crime. She successfully completed a court-ordered drug education program, and charges were dropped." If she wasn't charged, how could the charges be dropped? --68.160.151.209 01:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Here are my notes on the Darcy verification:

D'arcy Wretzky (born May 1, 1968). She was born in South Haven, Michigan.

This data was confirmed by http://imdb.com/name/nm0942155/maindetails

Best known as D'Arcy, a bass guitarist and an original member of the alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins. The band was founded in 1989 by Billy Corgan and James Iha, who recruited D'arcy for the band's first shows and demos.

Um, hard to dispute that, even I know that... But see Billy Corgan for an undisputed version of the same facts.

D'Arcy left the band in 2000 prior to the release of their final album and farewell tour.

This was also confirmed, but the sources I used (http://www.angelfire.com/sd/tdv/dreams.html and http://www.thei.aust.com/tssmusic1/darcy.html) mentioned she left in 1999 rather than 2000, so I made the change. One possible confusion is that the album released in 2000 contained work she recorded in 1999. Granted, it's a minor quibble.

Being able to fact check this article, I decided to remove the dispute. --SeanO 01:30, Sep 6, 2003 (UTC)

Nice job, Sean. The dispute originally occurred in the previous, mis-named article (Darcy Wretzky) and I believe the core of the dispute was over the birth year ('68 or '69) -- the allmusic site also gives '68 and I don't know where '69 came from but after someone else changed it to '68 a second time the person who disagreed put up the dispute notice. As to the year she left the band, there was a slack period between the recording and the release of the album which crossed the year boundary. She was clearly part of the band in 1999 and clearly out in 2000 -- which year she "left" is a Schrödinger's cat-like distinction.Jgm 13:20, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)

I hate to bring up what looks like an old subject, but this page needs to be moved for two reasons. D'arcy has never gone by the name 'D'arcy Wretzky' and has always been credited to just 'D'arcy'. The page should be moved to D'arcy to reflect this (much like Cher, Prince (musician) etc. etc.). Also, whether it is correct or not, she has always spelt her name with a lower case 'a'. Let me know if you don't agree, otherwise I'll move the page in a few days. MrHate 03:59, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

A move would be fine with me, you seem to be right about all that. Except on Gish it's spelled "D'Arcy" with the A capitalized, but oh well. Everyking 06:55, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

As another "D'Arcy", I think it might make sense to not have the page D'arcy automatically redirect to D'Arcy Wretzky. There are plenty of other D'Arcys out there... That's like having Bill redirect to Bill_gates

If another notable person that goes by "D'arcy" appears on Wikipedia, this page can be renamed "D'arcy (musician)" or "D'arcy (Smashing Pumpkin)". Until that time, the article should stay as D'arcy. As a side note, I might just mention that D'arcy doesn't redirect to D'arcy Wretzky but the other way around. This is because D'arcy is her professional/stage name (like Prince, Cher, Madonna etc.) Never has she been credited as D'arcy Wretzky. MrHate 23:59, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

Could somebody confirm that D'arcy played bass on Siamese Dream? I recall reading somewhere that Billy played all the strings as per his controlling nature. I could be wrong though. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.206.105.9 (talk • contribs).

Someone drastically changed the first section of this article and it now claims that Thom Yorke fathered a child that D'arcy does not have. I'm going to remove this but someone please change things to look more complete if you could. Thanks. 66.3.122.9 10:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mugshot

Okay, whos the dumbass? The second picture is of Yelena Yemchuk, the principal photographer and ex-girlfriend of Corgan. I'm reverting. --MadameArsenic 09:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Your source of this? This picture was uploaded to Wikipedia as a mugshot of D'arcy, not Yelena. If it is Yelena, what was she arrested on? -- Reaper X 23:30, 10 September 2006 (UTC)